TM
Yes. But the issue is that the local TV operations are based in pretty much the same locations that the BBC and ITV have reasonably large newsgathering operations. Rather than providing coverage of areas that are currently unserved, they are duplicating coverage.
It will be interesting to see if the local TV operations linked to newspapers manage to get their current newspaper teams trained to produce useful content, and file it in a way that gets it back to base fast enough to be useful, and beat the national organisations.
Currently, the quality and depth of coverage isn't encouraging.
Agreed.
I'm not impressed with what I've seen so far from London Live, certainly in terms of its supposed 'news' coverage, and I think you're absolutely right to suggest that the new local TV operators aren't really exploiting their full potential for coverage of local news stories (if that's what you're saying).
The only thing I would add is that national news organisations like the BBC, ITN and Sky all have established relationships with the main national picture agencies like Rex Features, UPPA and Getty Images as well as the picture desks of most national newspapers - giving them access to still images for use in graphics etc. But quite often, it is the more localised and specialised picture agencies like South West News Service and the Ross Parry Agency, that are able to provide a better range of still images more quickly. If the new local TV operators were to adopt a similar approach to local news gathering (which is really the strength they should be playing to), I think it is entirely possible the likes of Sky News would try to agree some form of access deal?
London Live
Yes, there is unlikely to be much national interest in the closure of a furniture shop in Norwich but a warehouse fire, a helicopter crash, a motorway pile-up etc, would easily make the national news. Were Local TV operators to up their game when it comes to actual local news coverage, I think it is entirely possible that the BBC, ITN and Sky would want access to their footage, especially if they are able to get to the scene before anybody else.
Yes. But the issue is that the local TV operations are based in pretty much the same locations that the BBC and ITV have reasonably large newsgathering operations. Rather than providing coverage of areas that are currently unserved, they are duplicating coverage.
It will be interesting to see if the local TV operations linked to newspapers manage to get their current newspaper teams trained to produce useful content, and file it in a way that gets it back to base fast enough to be useful, and beat the national organisations.
Currently, the quality and depth of coverage isn't encouraging.
Agreed.
I'm not impressed with what I've seen so far from London Live, certainly in terms of its supposed 'news' coverage, and I think you're absolutely right to suggest that the new local TV operators aren't really exploiting their full potential for coverage of local news stories (if that's what you're saying).
The only thing I would add is that national news organisations like the BBC, ITN and Sky all have established relationships with the main national picture agencies like Rex Features, UPPA and Getty Images as well as the picture desks of most national newspapers - giving them access to still images for use in graphics etc. But quite often, it is the more localised and specialised picture agencies like South West News Service and the Ross Parry Agency, that are able to provide a better range of still images more quickly. If the new local TV operators were to adopt a similar approach to local news gathering (which is really the strength they should be playing to), I think it is entirely possible the likes of Sky News would try to agree some form of access deal?
